It's rather amusing, isn't it chaps, how all the Royal obits say Phil the Greek had a deep lifelong concern for environmental issues and was a massive supporter of the Greenies, when there's yarns on the other side of the page on when he was shootin' up crocs in the NT ("right between the eyes" "no match for a Royal") and popping off Tigers on the sub-continent. No doubt someone, somewhere, has tallied up just how much game he bagged on tour... never mind the pheasants..."one group estimated he shot 30,000 pheasants in his lifetime".
Here's Matt McGinn’s (Scottish Communist folk singer) account of meeting HRH, shortly after the Duke had received negative attention in the press for shooting a tiger while on a Royal tour of India.
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